Johan Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer

This beautifully designed and illustrated publication is the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), one of the leading figures of eighteenth-century British art.

The German-born artist shot to fame with his charming conversation pieces and portraits of London celebrities, and he soon became the painter of choice of King George III, depicting the royal family with rare informality, and subsequently a founder-member of the Royal Academy of Arts. …